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Avon Books

ISBN: 0060828412

January 2006

Mystery

www.jajance.com

Reviewed By Thelma Howe

 

 

Ali Reynolds, a broadcast journalist, loses her job because the higher-ups want someone younger. Losing her high profile job is just the beginning of the many setbacks Ali will face. On her journey back home to Sedona, Arizona Ali makes another startling discovery. Her husband has been cheating with a younger woman. In Sedona, where her parents run the Sugarloaf café, Ali is struggling to understand the death of her high school friend, Reenie. With the help of her son, Chris, Ali begins an online blog to help her cope with her complex situation. Her catharsis eventually becomes her worse fears when she begins receiving threatening posts from the online blog community.

Jance writes an interesting and easy to read novel. In this day and age of cell phones, blogs, email and instant message the use of the Internet, blog posts and emails in the actual text makes for a current and Internet-savvy novel. Also, Jance broaches some of the dangers of using the Internet one may encounter adds a realistic element to the novel. The only problem with the story line was that the identity of the killer was easy to discover. Aside from that, this book was a great read. If the reader has not read any other J. A. Jance novels, there is a small section at the back that allows the reader to meet J. A. Jance, Joanna Bradley, and J.P. Beaumont. Jance is very knowledgeable with Arizona since she has lived there since she was a little girl. Joanna Bradley is a character from the Joanna Brady Mystery Series. The readers will meet J. P. Beaumont in the J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series. To find out more about J. A. Jance and her many other books visit http://www.jajance.com.

 

 

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